Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men [Book Review]

In many ways women are invisible, women are being ignored in ways that you may not expect

Find out what I’ve learned, that not only does this harm women but it’s literally costing women their lives

Here are some key messages from this episode

• Why The Gender Data Gap is costing lives
• The socially constructed nature of reality
• The reasons why women are being ignored

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Here are some key takeaways from this episode

The Gender Data Gap means we really don’t know what we think we know

“Data, information, knowledge, history is incomplete and inaccurate because it does not include women in way that would be reasonably expected”

Excluding women is costing some women their lives

“women tend to sit further forward than men when driving and are therefore more likely to be seriously injured and die in a car accident, even the crash test dummies were based around fiftieth percentile men when they were first introduced in the 1950’s”

We need to address the dominant paradigm to create lasting Inclusive change

“the very paradigm we use to think, to conceive reality has a male default and until we address this how can we expect anything existing in that paradigm to produce anything different”

Here are some resources so you can go deeper

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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